Who is the greatest videogame villain?

Villains. Love them or hate them, they’re a vital part of the videogame experience. No matter what form they come in, whether they be subtle (like Limbo’s underlying feeling of fear and hopelessness) or full frontal like Metal Gear Solid’s Liquid Snake, videogames just wouldn’t be what they are without them.

With this in mind, we here at Gamer Nation set out to discover just who is the greatest villain in a videogame, and came up with some very different answers…

Yeah Saren was great, one of those villains whose agenda you can kind of agree with. Letho was great in witcher 2 but I'm not sure he counts as a villain. The helghast leaders Visari and Stahl were fantastic as well. They stand out out in a sea of generic space marine machoism.

Nintendo is the greatest video game villain with their incremental hardware revisions and ploys to pull people in with gimmicks that doesnt improve gameplay but holding back gaming progress. That's why 3ds has one circle bad and bad graphics with resistive touch screen. Wii needed wiimotion plus and it had bad graphics. Super Mario Wii u is in 2d with cartoon graphics like super Nintendo. Skyward sword had rubbish controls and bad graphics which seem like it was dlc for Zelda oot. The Wii u is worst than ps3 and xbox. The online system on Wii u is terrible. There are negatives all around Nintendo

Nintendo took a huge leap of faith introducing a new way to game with the wiinote, which could've bankrupt them had it failed. They actually introduced gaming to a new unsucessfully tapped market(females, middle age, and seniors) expanding/growing the video game industry. They grew the industry to a level never achieved before.

After the Wii, some of these Wii gamers might quit gaming. However, some might continue gaming and venture into other gaming options like the more traditional style of gaming. Basically, the Wii might have served as their gateway to mainstream gaming.

Now they're video games worst villain?? What a silly statement to make, and even sillier reasons.

They aren't really villains though. They are protecting Gwynevere. Smough could arguable be considered a villain based on back story, but Smough and Ornstein don't really come after you or try to thwart your plans, they are just there.

Phil's video answer was just incredible. I was not expecting that end to it. Every answer in this is just fantastic, and I honestly loved reading every one of them, and agreed with many (if I'd played the game of course. Couldn't really agree if I hadn't played against said villain)

Get outta here with Sephiroth. He's no villain. Especially when compared to the rest of your list. Hell, Rufus Shinra is more of a villain than Sephiroth.

@shempo: He's not on that list because he's a good villain. He's on that list because of how popular FF7 is. He couldn't take anyone. He wanted to become a god and failed, Kefka successfully destroyed the world, AND became a god. Kefka could blink Sephiroth out of existence.